does anyone sell good quality servers anymore?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
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> On 11/21/2012 03:17 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>> All of this brings me back to the subject.  Is there any company out
>> there who is selling good quality servers, that doesn't make it
>> painful or time consuming to customize them prior to ordering?  Also,
>> good warranty support.  If a part fails, I don't want to spend half my
>> day on the phone appeasing some drone with a checklist.
>>
>
> My company has had good experience with Dell. We have been happy with
> their server quality and their technical support. We do not have a lot
> of servers, but we have helped clients to configure their Dell servers
> (they all use Dell servers).
>
> I have no experience with HP so I cannot compare the prices and or
> services, but if you have a Dell account manager, then the prices drop a
> lot.
>
> Normally I will go to their web site to configure the servers I need
> then I send the carts to my Dell account manager and ask him/her for the
> quotes. The final prices can be dropped up to 20%-40%, besides the
> discount the web site has already applied.

I don't have a Dell account manager (we've got one for HP, and she
sucks).  Anyway, my approach is similar to yours, I go to the website,
configure what I want, and then let my purchasing dept fight it out
with HP's sales people for a good price.  Sadly, Dell's website
doesn't give me the flexibility that HP's does, such that we're going
to end up buying much more than we want or need just to maintain the
same minimum specs.

>
> Anyway, I hope your server nightmare can go away, no matter which vendor
> you go with. I am having some huge problem with the new ISP so I can relate.
>
>
> Happy Thanksgiving !!!

thanks, and same to you!

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